Re: Inauspicious Beginning

[Binyomin Kaplan <binyomin gs net>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Binyomin Kaplan <binyomin@gs.net> writes:
> > I tired to compile the first "HelloWorld" from the GTK+ 1.0
> > tutorial accessible through the main GTK+ site.
> > (www.gtk.org/tutorial1.0). I used all the flags etc.
> > with gcc that I was instructed to use, and I got the following error
> > message: -L/usr/lib: No such file or directory.
> > I am running RedHat 5.2 with GTK 1.0.6 and GCC 2.7.2.3
> > What went wrong?
> >
>
> (as an aside, upgrading your Red Hat Linux or at least your GTK is a
> very good idea)
>
> Please post the exact compile command you typed, and the error message
> as it appears on your screen. i.e. type the compile command, run it,
> and cut-and-paste the contents of your terminal window into your
> email.
>

I seem to have fixed it. The command was so long that I originally pasted it
from
the webpage into a shell script, and I see what I did wrong.

Thanks for the offer to help,
and you are right that I should upgrade,

Binyomin